It's time for the Year In Review meme!
Dec. 29th, 2006 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabThe year in review: the first couple sentences from the first post of each month of 2006. I did more whining about my heart than I'm pleased with. I will try to whine less in 2007.
January At the start of the year, I'm in the middle of reading:
Jonathan Kellerman's latest in the Alex Delaware series, Rage
a book of useless information called Vital Statistics
Al Franken's The Truth, With Jokes
Terry Pratchett's Soul Music, which I had somehow heretofore overlooked.
February This morning I had my appointment over at Johns Hopkins with the electrophysiologist that my cardiologist referred me to, and the EP, Dr. Sinha, is quite confident that he can implant the third lead without having to do a thoracotomy, so we went ahead and scheduled the surgery for Thursday, March 2.
March Kelly will be away from the keyboard for a few days: I need to be at Johns Hopkins at 6-freakin-30 Thursday morning for prep for surgery, and will be in the hospital overnight; I'm getting a new lead added to my pacemaker; Wednesday I will be very busy trying to do RL things that I shouldn't put off till after surgery, such as paying bills, getting a new octave key linkage pin put in my bari sax, and assorted other errands in the Montgomery County, area such that I may not get a chance to post on Wednesday (other than this 1:30 a.m. post) and so probably won't sit back down at the computer until Saturday.
April I have been working on a sonnet about my recent ICD removal experience. What???? Are you crazy???
May Which to discuss first: the finished socks, the tuna salad recipe, the band rehearsal, or the medical update? Well, that's as good an order as any, I suppose.
June It's just that all of the stuff I'm mumbling to myself these last couple of days is long nattering whines about the '70's and assorted geezer stuff. Nothing that really warrants bandwidth. Like, this evening for listening in the car on the way to rehearsal, I grabbed Peter, Paul & Mary's Album 1700, Shawn Phillips' Second Offering, and a Leo Kottke album.
July Still no broadband. Ready to scream. On the other hand: Farfalle and Domino are living happily together in the same cage now, which makes things much easier in the pet room. The new chinchillas have also settled in pretty well, although there are still moments of agitation where the two cages of chinchillas are adjacent.
August We came home from lunch to discover that a tree had fallen into the street; one of our neighbors had their teenage son cutting down a tree instead of a trained arborist, and... anyway, we stood out there talking to the neighbor - gossip about other neighbors' dogs and their bad behavior - and watching the kid trying to figure out how to trim the tree back so that it wouldn't finish crushing the fence entirely, nor the car parked at that end of the block.
September We have arrived in Pittsburgh, albeit by car rather than by bike, as it was actively raining when we left Baltimore, thanks to Ernesto. The GPS chose to route us mainly along US Route 30, after only a short while on interstate 70, which would have been a lovely route had we been on the bike but was somewhat annoying in the car; we will try for the interstates going home.
October Please forgive the several days without posts; I was having a little argument with my new defibrillator - nothing life-threatening, but it used up a couple days of my life to figure that out; it's just some odd neuropathy being triggered while the scar tissue inside forms around the device, and that nerve irritation merely happens to feel like daggers being stabbed through my shoulder.
November Another Halloween with no trick-or-treaters, so we'll just have to eat those chocolate bars ourselves - what a pity. The passing of that holiday means that now we get the full blast of xmas, which has been a trickle since Labor Day. Wednesday night is the Montgomery Village Community Band's dress rehearsal for our concert Sunday, which starts the round of holiday concerts. And which will premier my piece!!
December The Baltimore Symphonic Band concert Tuesday night at Oak Crest went fine. The "Santa Comes to Dixieland" piece is a hoot; I really enjoy the tenor sax part! Oak Crest Village is one humongous retirement community. After rehearsal, we went straight to BWI to pick Cindy up.
January At the start of the year, I'm in the middle of reading:
February This morning I had my appointment over at Johns Hopkins with the electrophysiologist that my cardiologist referred me to, and the EP, Dr. Sinha, is quite confident that he can implant the third lead without having to do a thoracotomy, so we went ahead and scheduled the surgery for Thursday, March 2.
March Kelly will be away from the keyboard for a few days: I need to be at Johns Hopkins at 6-freakin-30 Thursday morning for prep for surgery, and will be in the hospital overnight; I'm getting a new lead added to my pacemaker; Wednesday I will be very busy trying to do RL things that I shouldn't put off till after surgery, such as paying bills, getting a new octave key linkage pin put in my bari sax, and assorted other errands in the Montgomery County, area such that I may not get a chance to post on Wednesday (other than this 1:30 a.m. post) and so probably won't sit back down at the computer until Saturday.
April I have been working on a sonnet about my recent ICD removal experience. What???? Are you crazy???
May Which to discuss first: the finished socks, the tuna salad recipe, the band rehearsal, or the medical update? Well, that's as good an order as any, I suppose.
June It's just that all of the stuff I'm mumbling to myself these last couple of days is long nattering whines about the '70's and assorted geezer stuff. Nothing that really warrants bandwidth. Like, this evening for listening in the car on the way to rehearsal, I grabbed Peter, Paul & Mary's Album 1700, Shawn Phillips' Second Offering, and a Leo Kottke album.
July Still no broadband. Ready to scream. On the other hand: Farfalle and Domino are living happily together in the same cage now, which makes things much easier in the pet room. The new chinchillas have also settled in pretty well, although there are still moments of agitation where the two cages of chinchillas are adjacent.
August We came home from lunch to discover that a tree had fallen into the street; one of our neighbors had their teenage son cutting down a tree instead of a trained arborist, and... anyway, we stood out there talking to the neighbor - gossip about other neighbors' dogs and their bad behavior - and watching the kid trying to figure out how to trim the tree back so that it wouldn't finish crushing the fence entirely, nor the car parked at that end of the block.
September We have arrived in Pittsburgh, albeit by car rather than by bike, as it was actively raining when we left Baltimore, thanks to Ernesto. The GPS chose to route us mainly along US Route 30, after only a short while on interstate 70, which would have been a lovely route had we been on the bike but was somewhat annoying in the car; we will try for the interstates going home.
October Please forgive the several days without posts; I was having a little argument with my new defibrillator - nothing life-threatening, but it used up a couple days of my life to figure that out; it's just some odd neuropathy being triggered while the scar tissue inside forms around the device, and that nerve irritation merely happens to feel like daggers being stabbed through my shoulder.
November Another Halloween with no trick-or-treaters, so we'll just have to eat those chocolate bars ourselves - what a pity. The passing of that holiday means that now we get the full blast of xmas, which has been a trickle since Labor Day. Wednesday night is the Montgomery Village Community Band's dress rehearsal for our concert Sunday, which starts the round of holiday concerts. And which will premier my piece!!
December The Baltimore Symphonic Band concert Tuesday night at Oak Crest went fine. The "Santa Comes to Dixieland" piece is a hoot; I really enjoy the tenor sax part! Oak Crest Village is one humongous retirement community. After rehearsal, we went straight to BWI to pick Cindy up.
